Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries (Annotated)

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As part of our continued effort to be more transparent about how search works, we’re publishing video footage from our internal weekly search meeting: “Quality Launch Review.” We hold the meeting almost every Thursday to discuss possible algorithmic improvements and make decisions about what to launch. This video is from the meeting that happened on December 1st, 2011, and includes the entire uncut discussion of a real algorithmic improvement to our spell correction system. The language can be technical, so we’ve included annotations to provide some context for the discussion (and have a little fun!).... Read More

Mass Effect Infiltrator for iPhone Review

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In this video I review Mass Effect Infiltrator for iOS on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Mass Effect Infiltrator is a tie-in with Mass Effect 3 however it follows a different story and is made by a different developer. The graphics are absolutely fantastic as is the sound, gameplay is overall good but the story is lacking and the controls go between being fantastic and horrible.... Read More